Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class of Ninety-five met last evening to express their sorrow for the loss they have sustained in the death of their classmate, Lamar Soutter...
...have not known him personally. With all this popularity, was combined a feeling of reverence. We looked up to him as one of the links which bound us to the past of Harvard and inspired us with love and loyalty. All, then, must feel this loss with inexpressible sorrow; but the memory of the man as teacher, pastor and friend will not be easily forgotten...
...strange what a warm heart he had, and how he sympathized with the poor and desolate. He never had had any hardship, or any personal sorrow, yet his was the kindest heart and his the tenderest words to the sorrowful. It is the poor who mourn him most of all, and feel that only God is left for them...
This Memorial should include the erection of Phillips Brooks House, costing, say, $100,000 and dedicated not only to the comfort and succor of all in the college world who are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness or any other adversity, but also to that joyous and rich life he always preached. It should be made the house and workshop for all forms of spiritual activity, benevolent action and religions aspiration in the University. To do this as he would do it, will take not less than $8,000 per year for its maintenance in full and free operation. It should...
...sympathy for his family. Bishop Brooks was President of the board of trustees of Groton School, and as boys there we had the benefit of his devotion to the school. As students of Harvard University we have continued to enjoy the inspiration of his friendship and influence. Our personal sorrow is joined with a sense of the immeasurable loss which his death brings to Groton School and Harvard University. Be it further...